Bucko, you have GOT to see this....

[Botafogo]

This probably should be under "Wine and Health" but this is SO stupid and SO inacurate and SO outrageous that I have to rant:

http://www.truthinwine.com/documents/rankings.html


will take you to the website of a magazine that purports to tell you what wines are "healthy" based on laboratory testing of chemical components. They seem to know just enough about wine to be dangerous:

"There are two reasons for high sugar content in a wine: either the fermentation process is prematurely halted before all of the sugar is converted or sweet unfermented grape juice is added to the fermented wine."

UH, what about super-ripe, dried and / or botrytus affected grapes you boneheads????

"None of the 30 wines tested by TIW fall within federal guidelines of 1.5% variance from the stated label amounts of alcohol...in the case of Sutter Home, alcohol is overstated by a third"?!?!?

If the aboave statement was true, some of the smartest, largest corporate wineries in the country will owe millions of dollars in fines. I am not a chemist but I think that the difference between Alcohol by Volume (the American standard) and Alcohol by weight (typical in a laboratory analysis) is about that much (I know this from looking at books about beer, which often list both).

Acidity in wine is dismissed as A) unhealthy and B) artificial and, in yet another "secret" ingredient, Kendall Jackson Chard seems to have 4 times the ZINC than all the other wines tested....

Bucko, you should get one of the mags and tear these guys a new sphincter....

Roberto